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 Despite releasing more than 10 new products so far this year, Apple has yet to hold a traditional event with a live-streamed video in 2026.
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When Google released Gemini 3 Pro at the end of last year, it was a significant step forward for the company's proprietary large language models. Now, the company is bringing some of the same technology and research that made those models possible to the open source community with the release of its new family of Gemma 4 open-weight models.
Google is offering four different versions of Gemma 4, differentiated by the number of parameters on offer. For edge devices, including smartphones, the company has the 2-billion and 4-billion "Effective" models. For more powerful machines, there's the 26-billion "Mixture of Experts" and 31-billion "Dense" systems. For the unfamiliar, parameters are the settings a large language model can tweak to generate an output. Typically, models with more parameters will deliver better answers than ones with less, but running them also requires more powerful hardware.
With Gemma 4, Google claims it's managed to engineer systems with "an unprecedented level of intelligence-per-parameter." To back up this claim, the company points to the performance of Gemma 4's 31-billion and 26-billion variants, which claimed the third and sixth spots respectively on Arena AI's text leaderboard, beating out models 20 times their size.
All of the models can process video and images, making them ideal for tasks like optical character recognition. The two smaller models are also capable of processing audio inputs and understanding speech. Separately, Google says the Gemma 4 family is capable of generating offline code, meaning you could use them to do vibe coding without an internet connection. Google has also trained the models in more than 140 languages.
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 Apple offers the iPhone 17 Pro and ?iPhone 17 Pro? Max in just three colors - Silver, Cosmic Orange, and Deep Blue - but notably there's no black option. Last year was the first time Apple's high-end iPhones have not been available with a black or dark gray color option in any way, but those hoping for the return of black this year for the iPhone 18 Pro should look away now.
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 Apple's 20 percent stake in satellite partner Globalstar has become a sticking point in Amazon's reported bid to acquire the company, according to the Financial Times ($).
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 Apple today updated its vintage and obsolete product page to add the Wi-Fi version of the third-generation iPad Air. Cellular ?iPad Air? 3 models were already on the list, but the Wi-Fi models were sold for a longer period of time, and are now just appearing.
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 Apple accidentally started rolling out Apple Intelligence features in China before receiving regulatory approval, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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